Example sentences of "around [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 2 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 3 | Sweepers raked the dirt and dung away from the front of stalls ; a muezzin called from the minaret of a nearby mosque ; chai wallahs pulled their blankets closer around them and lit their burners to boil the first tea saucepan of the day . |
| 4 | She wrapped her arms around me and sought my spine with her fingertips . |
| 5 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 6 | He flung his arms around me and pushed his beard in my face . |
| 7 | I remembered the long , graceful legs of the prioress wrapped firmly around me and hid my smile . |
| 8 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 9 | Christina flung her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 10 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 11 | Craig looked around him and realized he had been here before . |
| 12 | She threw her arms around him and buried her head on his huge chest , loving the solidity there . |
| 13 | Suddenly , she threw her arms around him and hugged him fiercely in a way she had never done before . |
| 14 | So I sidled up , slipped my arm around him and gave him a kiss . |
| 15 | Ruth linked her arms around him and wrapped her legs around his . |
| 16 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 17 | And Kate 's mother had put her arm around him and pulled him towards her . |
| 18 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 19 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 20 | He put his arms around her and pressed her naked breasts to him . |
| 21 | She stopped waving her arms about and he quite suddenly put his arms around her and pressed his face against hers . |
| 22 | He put his arm around her and led her into the room , and Maggie got up to go . |
| 23 | I put my arms around her and hugged her , but I did n't kiss her again because I thought I might cry . |
| 24 | But she was crying too , and the young man in the black shirt put his arm around her and held her . |
| 25 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 26 | ‘ I just put my arms around her and squeezed her so tight I thought I 'd break her ribs , ’ said Rosemary Lodge , whose 18-year-old daughter Suzanne died when a car driven by Ann-Marie Coombes crashed . |
| 27 | He put his arm around her and drew her towards him . |
| 28 | Nicolo put his arm around her and drew her close . |
| 29 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 30 | Overthrow made from ticking , 130cm wide , £13.50/m , wire basket with candleholders , £21 ; all from The Conran Shop ; we painted the basket red , twined ivy around it and lined it with moss , before filling with fruit . |